Clothes-drier.



No. 744,901. PATENTED NOV. 24. 1903.

S. BUTTBRWORTH.

- CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLIU ATION FILED SEPT. 15, 1902.

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S. BUTTERWORTH.

CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 15,1902.

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UNITED STATES iatented-November 24, 1905i.

SAMUEL BUTTERWORTH, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,901, dated November 24, 1903.

Application filed September 15, 1902. Serial No. 123.365. (No model.) I

T at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BUTTERWORTH,

a citizen of the United States, residing at doston, in the county of Suffolk and State'of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Briers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a vertical central section at a line corresponding to line 1 l of Fig. 3 of my clothes-drier. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a portion thereof. Fig. 3 is a View, partly in cross-section at line 3 3 of Fig. 1, showing a detail of the telescopic construction of the standard of the drier and a top plan view of the adjusting mechanism. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the special cover and spider combined. Fig. 5 is a perspective of a stove pro vided with my clothes-drier.

The object of my invention is to produce a special stove-hole cover adapted to hold the standard of a clothes-drier or the like in vertical position.

In. the drawings, 1 is a special stove or range cover adapted to be substituted for one of the regular covers, and 2 is a standard-receiving socket formed on cover 1, which is formed with a fastener-hole 3, through which a fastener 4: extends into connection with the spider 5, which is preferably made up of a centralboss and a plurality of projecting arms, as shown. Outer portion 6 of the spider projects beyond the under peripheral margin of the cover-hole in the stovepipe S, the spider bein g inserted within the stove underneath the cover-hole in which cover 1 is to be set. When the cover is in place, fastener 4 is passed through the hole 3 into the spider, and the latter thereby locked in position on the stove or range- Cover-1, with its standard-receiving socket 2 and the spider, and the means for connecting the cover and spider together and to the stove may be made in a variety of forms, according to preference, without departure from my invention, a wholly new feature whereof consists in mounting a clothesdrier on a substitute imperforate stove-cover, which is anchored to the stove so as to hold the standard, or for the standard of any other device which is to be held vertically above the stove-top. By making the stove-hole cover imperforate smoke, dirt, and gases cannot pass through the cover. The socket 2 constitutes one form of coupling member whereby the cover and the standard of the drier or other device are detachably secured together.

Any desired kind of clothes-drier having a standard may be used; butI prefer to use one containing features of my present construction, as follows: Ahollow tube 10, the lower end of which fits tightly in the standard-rec'eiving socket, forms the lower member of the telescopic standard. The upper member 11 thereof is a suitable slide-bar, formed with a row of recesses 12, which are opposed to a slot 13 in the tube 10. A bracket 14, fast on the tube 10, supports a cross stud or journal 15, carrying a fast spur-wheel 16, the teeth 17 whereof work in therecesses 12. Journal also has a handle 18 fast on it. The stud 15 is loosely mounted in the bracket. By turning the handle the spur-Wheel is rotated and the slide-bar 11 raised or lowered in the lower member. A pawl 19, pivoted at 20 on the bracket 14, engages the teeth of the spur-wheel to hold it in adjusted position. v The upper end of the slide-bar is provided with a reel-bearing shoulder 20. The reel 21, which may be of many different forms, is provided with hub 22, having a recess to receive the upper end of the slide-bar on which the reel rotates, resting on the shoulder 20". The reel comprises a plurality of radial arms 23, each having an upturned lateral hook 224 at its outer end. Fast on the under side of the arms, concentric with the hub, and of a radius less than the length of the arms there is a rib 25, the exposed parts whereof between the arms afford anchorages at 26 for the inner hook-shaped ends of the dry-bars 27 the lateral hooks 24 at the ends of the arms holding the dry-bars in supporting position when the dry-bars hooked on the anchorages 26 rest in the hooks 24:. hen the dry-bars are on the anchorages and not also on the hooks, they hang downwardly.

Cover 1 forms a base-plate for the drier. comprising projections extending beyond the to What I claim is periphery of the cover. The combination of a clothes-drier stand- In testimony whereof I affix my signature ard; a stove-hole cover havingadownwardlyin presence of two witnesses.

5 projecting standard-receivin socket which 1 A is imperforate; means for holding said cover SAMUEL BUTTERWORTH' in place on a stove; and means for detach- Witnesses: ably connecting said holding means to the W. E. COVENEY, under side of the cover; said holding means ISAAC GORDON. 

